Fraction Magic – Part 3: Proof of code

3 – Programming to treat votes as decimals –

The term “DOUBLE” means to store and process numbers with “double precision floating points” – in other words, to enable large numbers of decimal values.

In contrast, the term “INT” instructs the program to treat numbers as whole integers.

Source Code:

Below are clips from GEMS source code showing that it converts votes from whole numbers (previous version, GEMS 1.17) to store and process them as decimal values by setting them to “double” in GEMS version 1.18:

Non-programmers may not have seen the term "double" used to describe processing numbers with decimals.
Here is an SQL tutorial -- there are many -- showing that "Double" means to process numbers as decimal values:

The above source code instructions create and define data structures in Microsoft Access tables, used by GEMS to create results reports. By opening the GEMS tables using MS Access, and right-clicking “design view” for the tables related to vote-counting, you see that the instruction to treat vote counts as “double” is implemented. The vote format in each is set to “double,” counting votes as decimals.

Overvotes are counted as whole numbers but undervotes are counted as decimals:

Because the “double” configuration for votes is built into the source code, the most important requirement for sophisticated, configurable election tampering exists wherever the program is used.

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Bennie Smith is a Memphis-based application developer for an electrical manufacturing company. He is also a political strategist who has developed a micro-targeting application that predicts voter turnout. In August 2014 he was approached by a number of candidates who insisted that their elections had been stolen. He disagreed with the group and offered to look into how the system works. After discovering a number of irregularities, Smith began to research how votes that originate from the same source can change once they get into the GEMS vote tabulation program. Smith’s attention to these anomalies uncovered an extraordinarily high-risk tampering mechanism and ultimately provided a new infrastructure for analyzing questionable election results.

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